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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Subject: Re: Free Trade: Why is there no 'Plan B'?
Message-ID: <8811182233.AA03813@esplanade.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 88 17:33:34 EST

In article <6848@watcgl.waterloo.edu> lrbartram@watcgl.waterloo.edu (lyn bartram) writes:
> [quoting from me:]
>>What inquiring minds want to know is, why is this stuff in can.general instead
>>Toronto Star or the Calgary Herald; if it's to be on this network too, let it
>>at least appear in the designated snakepit.  Or at least, if it's to appear
>>in can.general, let the article not contain errors that *I* can correct.
>
>It strikes me, Jim, that *you* are the first person to indulge in biased
>flame throwing ....

Hmm.  I thought I'd effectively hidden what I think about the free trade
agreement.  I have an opinion, but I do *not* plan to discuss it here.
I read the Toronto Star; it strikes me as heavily anti-free trade.  I see
occasional excerpts from the Calgary Herald (in the Star!), which leave
me with the impression that it is equally heavily pro-free trade.

My point is that I do not think any of us have a right to put our political
opinions in this news group.  In can.politics, yes, but not in can.general.

But I shouldn't have bothered to say so.  Complaints about what goes where
seldom reduce the overall flow of inappropriate material -- I certainly
didn't! -- and besides, I obviously left the impression that I was trying
to say something about the agreement itself, which I certainly wasn't.
-- 
Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
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